US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Clarence Townsend and Kenneth L. Mayers, striking street car men, at their preliminary hearing on charges they purchased dynamite with the intent of using it in a plan to bring an end to the strike. Related to Los Angeles Times articles “Dynamiting Case Heard; Witness Tells of Purchase; Asserted Statements Which Accuse Strike Leaders Read Into Record,” 15, Dec. 1934: A1, and “Trolley Strike Case Up; Ex-Conductor, Accused of Conspiracy to Use Dynamite Gets Hearing Today,” 21, Jan. 1935: A1, and “Car Striker Convicted: One Defendant in Dynamite Case Found Guilty and Other Acquitted,” 27, Mar. 1935: A1. Handwritten on negative: Clarence Townsend Text from negative sleeve: Townsend, Clarence 1935
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_4020 ark:/21198/zz002cpr07
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Street railroad employees--California--Los Angeles Dynamite Street railroad strikes--California--Los Angeles Townsend, Clarence Mayes, Kenneth L
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